Tinker v. Des Moines
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- 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam.
- The school board heard the students were doing this and banned the students from wearing them at school.
- NO MORE ARMBANDS!!
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- Tinker and her group came to school the next day with their armbands on and were asked to take them off. Tinker and four other students ended up getting suspended and couldn´t return to school until they agreed not to wear the armbands anymore.
- They ended up returning to school without the armbands, but to protest the school they wore all black clothing for the rest of the school year and filed a first amendment lawsuit.
- Tinker and her group went to court and explained their case.
- The supreme court held that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech...at the schoolhouse gate." They said that the students speech could only be prohibited if it actually disrupted the educational process.
- The school was in violation of the first amendment freedom of speech. The court ruled a 7-2 vote.
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